FY2024 GFN Annual Report Nourshing People and Planet - Flipbook - Page 30
Rise Against
Hunger
Philippines
Creating Opportunity
Through the grant funding from The
Rockefeller Foundation to The Global
FoodBanking Network, Rise Against
Hunger Philippines, or RAHP, kickstarted an
agricultural recovery project at the Nueva
Vizcaya Agricultural Terminal.
A GFN-funded research study found
that about half the excess produce at
Nueva Vizcaya, which is one of the largest
agricultural trading posts in the Philippines,
was going to waste. RAHP developed a
unique program that gives farmers a hand
while bolstering the nutrition and food
security of local communities: a food bank
where farmers can trade in their surplus
produce in exchange for shelf-stable goods
and essential supplies. Then, that produce
is primarily used in RAHP’s school
feeding program.
Addressing child hunger is one of
RAHP’s highest organizational priorities.
About 3 in 10 children in the country are
undernourished, according to research
by UNICEF. So much of the food bank’s
programming is focused on providing hot
meals to schoolchildren and supporting
organizations that run school feeding
programs. School feeding programs not only
support healthy growth and development at
a critical period of life, but they can enhance
academic performance, improve attendance,
and incentivize children to stay in school
long term.
